The funny thing is, I really didn't know much about the subculture until I got the idea for Rhys and I realized that he really wanted to be cheerfully, unapologetically queer and completely comfortable with it. Later on, I wound up with Wolf, who's also bi but a lot more guarded about it. It sometimes takes work for me to play, and I'm careful not to offend anyone, but it's definitely opened my mind a lot as a writer and person in general. :)
Rhys kind of got the triple threat, when it came to family. He was born to a very strict, middle-class, "Good, Upstanding" family, but he was the product of an affair, and then he had the nerve to grow up to be both queer and pagan. So when he got kicked out of the house, he just said "Screw it, I'm going to do what makes me happy". A lot of trouble came out of it, but it also made him one of the most accepting, easygoing people ever when it comes to dealing with people of all different kinds. He knows what it's like to be labelled and rejected, and he never wants to make someone else feel that way. So yes. Definitely drinking. :D
(I am surrounded by terrible, terrible enablers. >.> But we shall see...)
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Rhys kind of got the triple threat, when it came to family. He was born to a very strict, middle-class, "Good, Upstanding" family, but he was the product of an affair, and then he had the nerve to grow up to be both queer and pagan. So when he got kicked out of the house, he just said "Screw it, I'm going to do what makes me happy". A lot of trouble came out of it, but it also made him one of the most accepting, easygoing people ever when it comes to dealing with people of all different kinds. He knows what it's like to be labelled and rejected, and he never wants to make someone else feel that way. So yes. Definitely drinking. :D
(I am surrounded by terrible, terrible enablers. >.> But we shall see...)